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Primary Activity Coordinators: |
Early Intervention |
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Discipline Coordinators: |
Special Education Speech-Language Pathology |
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Discipline(s): |
Education: Early Intervention/Early Childhood Speech-Language Pathology Education/Special Education |
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AUCD Council Membership: |
No Council Membership |
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Research: | Language/Communication Interventions; Social-Communication Skills Interventions; Family-Centered Preschool Models; Interdisciplinary Teaming and Personnel Preparation; Preparing Early Intervention/Early Childhood Special Education Specialists in Autism | ||||||||||||||||||||
Education: | Linguistics; Psychology; Psycholinguistics; Early Intervention Special Education; Speech-Language Pathology | ||||||||||||||||||||
Service: | Associate Editor, Journal of Early Intervention; Editorial Board, Topics in Early Childhood Special Education; Pennsylvania Interagency Coordinating Council for Early Intervention; Founder, Pennsylvania Higher Education Consortium for Early Intervention; President, Interplay Childcare Center Board of Directors; Member, Pennsylvania Early Childhood Career Preparation Task Force |
Vita/Bio
Associate Professor, Special Education
Coordinator, Early Intervention Program
Coordinator, Applied Behavior Analysis Program
Department of Instruction & Learning
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
1969-1973 University of Rochester B.A., Psychology & Linguistics
1973-1974 University of Rochester M.A., Psycholinguistics
1974-1977 University of Rochester Ph.D., Psycholinguistics
1987-1989 West Virginia University, Early Intervention Special Education certification
1981-1983; 1987-1989 University of Pittsburgh Communication Sciences & Disorders
1988-1989 University of Pittsburgh Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Language Intervention
APPOINTMENTS AND POSITIONS
1978 - 1989, Assistant & Associate Professor, Special Education, West Virginia University; Adjunct Assistant Professor, Speech-Language Pathology
1990 - 1993 Assistant Professor, Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh
1994 - 1999 Assistant Professor, Special Education, Coordinator, Early Intervention Program, University of Pittsburgh
1999 - present Associate Professor, Special Education, Coordinator, Early Intervention Program, University of Pittsburgh
Non-Academic Positions
1973 - 1975 Part-time teacher, NY Verbal Behavior Laboratory & Preschool, University of Rochester
1975 - 1977 Assistant Director, Verbal Behavior Laboratory, University of Rochester
1977 - 1978 Project Associate, Early Childhood Special Education, State University of New
York at Binghamton
1989 - 1990 Project Coordinator, Child Language Intervention Program, University of Pittsburgh